Sylvia Nasar, author of the award-winning book, "A Beautiful Mind," will be the 2002 Commencement speaker at The University of Tulsa's 109th commencement on May 11.
Nasar, who holds the Knight Chair in Business Journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, discovered the story of Nobel laureate John Nash in 1993 while reporting on economics for The New York Times.
A veteran business journalist and columnist who has worked for Fortune magazine and U.S. News & World Report, Nasar became fascinated by Nash's intellectual achievements and triumph over schizophrenia.
Nasar's book won the prestigious National Book Critics' Circle Award and was a finalist for a Pulitzer prize when it appeared in 1998. The movie inspired by Nasar's book, which reached No. 1 on The New York Times' best seller list, won the 2002 Academy Awards for Best Picture.
Nasar's book explores the life and mind of Nash. In his doctoral thesis, for which eventually won the Nobel in economic science in 1994, created a theory of human conflict and cooperation that has transformed modern economics and has been applied to everything from military strategy and evolutionary theory to international trade negotiations and anti-trust cases.
A native of Germany, Nasar grew up in New York, Washington, D.C., and Ankara, Turkey. She studied literature at Antioch College and completed a master's degree in economics at New York University, where she subsequently conducted research with Nobel Laureate Wassily Leontief at the Institute for Economic Analysis. Last year she was a visiting scholar at Princeton University's Industrial Relations Division. She is currently working on a book on 20th century economic thinkers. A jpeg photo of Sylvia Nasar is available for downloading at: http://www.utulsa.edu/news/images/nasar.jpg
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